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Jay Bushman: Writer & Media InnovatorThu, 22 Jan 2015 23:43:59 +0000http://jaybushman.comenEndgame: Ancient Truthhttp://jaybushman.com/Endgame-Ancient-Truth
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Writer and Narrative Designer for Endgame: Ancient Truth, an Alternate Reality Game from Niantic Labs and Google, and a prequel to the book Endgame: The Calling by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton.
E:AT is a vast and dense world to explore. The best places to start are the out-of-fiction start page and the in-fiction guide.
One of my chief duties on this project was writing an ongoing series of alternate history posts for the twelve ancient societies that comprised the pillars of the storyworld, in the voice of the protagonist Stella. Here are a few pieces I wrote for the game that are among my favorites:
Father Marquette and the Dragons
Wonga's Great Trip
The Mu Death Cult
Illusions
Choices Writer and Narrative Designer for Endgame: Ancient Truth, an Alternate Reality Game from Niantic Labs and Google, and a prequel to the book Endgame: The Calling...Resignationhttp://jaybushman.com/Resignation
http://jaybushman.com/following/jaybushman.com/ResignationThu, 24 Jul 2014 00:59:53 +0000Jay Bushman: Writer & Media Innovator8290748Experience Designer for Resignation: The Immersive Film Experience
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Resignation is the gritty, action-fantasy, immersive film that turns the superhero myth on its head: as an alcoholic combat photographer with a curious, heroic past struggles with his job as a “professional witness,” he must confront the fact that his dilemma may run deeper than he’d like to face.
Screenrant: Short Film ‘Resignation’ Flips the Superhero Myth on Its Head
Fanboy Planet: Proof You Can Be Realistic About Superheroes Without Ruining The CharacterExperience Designer for Resignation: The Immersive Film Experience Resignation is the gritty, action-fantasy, immersive film that turns the superhero myth on its...Cloudmaker Dayshttp://jaybushman.com/Cloudmaker-Days
http://jaybushman.com/following/jaybushman.com/Cloudmaker-DaysThu, 24 Jul 2014 00:02:36 +0000Jay Bushman: Writer & Media Innovator8290589On the evening of May 6th, 2001, I dawdled on the corner of 4th Street and Avenue A in New York City, trying to decide if I really would attend a rally for the Anti-Robot Militia.
I wouldn’t know anybody there. Sure, I had corresponded with some of them through an online message board. And after chickening out of the first gathering, I’d gone to the second cell meeting the week before – a dozen or so tentative geeks communing in an empty mid-town dining room, gingerly feeling each other out over our shared obsession with a strange series of websites. But this would be different. Even though the rally was taking place at an East Village bar, it was ostensibly going to be in the world of the “game.” Nobody knew what to expect, although speculation was rampant. But this would be more than just kibitzing about an online curiosity. This was the real world.
I thought about going home. It was a Sunday night. I could skip a strange evening with a bunch of weird geeks, turn in early and get ready to face Monday morning. I could read about what happened behind the safety of my monitor. Standing on that corner, I hesitated.
At last, I chose the road with the robots and the weirdoes. And that has made all the difference.
Cloudmaker Days is an essay about the unforgettable experience of playing "The A.I. Game" (aka "The Beast"), considered the first Alternate Reality Game. Published by Carnegie Mellon's ETC Press in "Well Played 2.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning."
The full text of the essay is available on the ETC site.
The entire book is free to download from ETC or Amazon.
On the evening of May 6th, 2001, I dawdled on the corner of 4th Street and Avenue A in New York City, trying to decide if I really would attend a rally for the...#SXStarWars 2010: The Empire Tweets Backhttp://jaybushman.com/SXStarWars-2010-The-Empire-Tweets-Back
http://jaybushman.com/following/jaybushman.com/SXStarWars-2010-The-Empire-Tweets-BackFri, 11 Jul 2014 01:09:56 +0000Jay Bushman: Writer & Media Innovator8225339A full-scale Twitter adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back.
Adapted from the movie script with additional material from the radio play, a continually running re-telling of movie with a cast of 64 different Twitter accounts.
Tweets from https://twitter.com/ESB_Tweets/lists/the-empire-tweets-back
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A full-scale Twitter adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back. Adapted from the movie script with additional material from the radio play, a continually running...The #SXStarWars Conference 2011http://jaybushman.com/The-SXStarWars-Conference-2011
http://jaybushman.com/following/jaybushman.com/The-SXStarWars-Conference-2011Fri, 11 Jul 2014 01:09:55 +0000Jay Bushman: Writer & Media Innovator8225344A fictional SXSW-style conference held in the Star Wars universe. Participants were asked to share what their individual experiences were and what panel discussions, parties and events they attended.
io9: The 10 best tweets from South By Star Wars
StarWars.com: Best of the #SXStarWars Twitter Meme
Best of SXStarWars 2011
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A fictional SXSW-style conference held in the Star Wars universe. Participants were asked to share what their individual experiences were and what panel...#SXStarWars 2009: Twitter Trench Runhttp://jaybushman.com/SXStarWars-2009-Twitter-Trench-Run
http://jaybushman.com/following/jaybushman.com/SXStarWars-2009-Twitter-Trench-RunThu, 10 Jul 2014 22:51:23 +0000Jay Bushman: Writer & Media Innovator8191754At the 2009 SXSW Festival, a live, real-time Twitter reenactment of the attack on the Death Star.
Variety: From SXSW: Death Star Attack Kicked Off on Twitter
StarWars.com: Twitter Trench Run
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http://jaybushman.com/following/jaybushman.com/Fourth-Wall-StudiosFri, 04 Jul 2014 14:20:43 +0000Jay Bushman: Writer & Media Innovator8191760Multiple roles and projects at the groundbreaking interactive transmedia entertainment studio, including writing and development of creative projects, experience design and development of the RIDES.tv platform. As Director of Social Media, I had oversight of all social media strategy.
Selected projects:
Airship Dracula - Creator and Writer
Dirty Work - Associate Producer
RVC - Experience Designer
6:14 - Experience Designer
Whispers - Experience Designer
Wired: Fourth Wall Studios Experience Infusion of Cash, Talent
Turnstyle News: New Media Breaks Through: Fourth Wall Studios Launches 'Rides'
LA Times: Fourth Wall does the 'Dirty Work' of innovation
NPR: Immersing viewers in 'Dirty Work'Multiple roles and projects at the groundbreaking interactive transmedia entertainment studio, including writing and development of creative projects, experience...Hashtag Hamlethttp://jaybushman.com/Hashtag-Hamlet
http://jaybushman.com/following/jaybushman.com/Hashtag-HamletFri, 04 Jul 2014 14:20:41 +0000Jay Bushman: Writer & Media Innovator8191770Hashtag Hamlet is a modern multiplatform adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous play, radically modernizing the story as a political thriller for the social media age. Currently in development.
Selected as an Invited Fellow to the Sundance New Frontier Story Lab.
Sundance: Sundance Institute Selects Six Creative Teams and Projects for New Frontier Story Lab
Development Blog: The ReadinessHashtag Hamlet is a modern multiplatform adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous play, radically modernizing the story as a political thriller for the social media...The Horizon Factoryhttp://jaybushman.com/The-Horizon-Factory
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Mobile media apps for everyone. No coding required. We're building a platform that will enable creators of all kinds to bring their work to their audiences in...Spoon River Metblogshttp://jaybushman.com/Spoon-River-Metblogs
http://jaybushman.com/following/jaybushman.com/Spoon-River-MetblogsFri, 04 Jul 2014 14:17:11 +0000Jay Bushman: Writer & Media Innovator8191759The Spoon River Metblog is a modern adaptation of "Spoon River Anthology," set in the form of a group blog.
The full archive can be found at the Spoon River Metblog page.
About The Spoon River Metblog:
When they first appeared serially in the magazine Reedy’s Mirror in 1915, the poems that make up Spoon River Anthology were a scandal and a sensation. A poet named Webster Ford, visiting the cemetery in his fictional hometown of Spoon River, Illinois, hears the testimony of the local dead. Each individual poem is one person’s epitaph. Some of them have attained wisdom in their passing. Some cling to the grudges of their living days. Some cry for justice. Some ask for forgiveness. Many relate their part in the culture war between liberals and conservatives that split their town in two. Most, but not all, are unquiet. Each individual testimony reveals more detail about the larger stories occurring in the town, with people augmenting or contradicting their neighbors. Rather than using ornate and high-flown poetic language, Masters used plain and blunt language to describe their inner, secret lives, touching on topics such as abortion, murder, infidelity and atheism, and ripping the veneer off the image of idyllic small town life. When the poems were assembled, augmented and reordered in book form in 1916, it became the second best-selling volume of American poetry of all-time. Today it is a standard text in many high school English classes and acting schools, and its stage adaptations are regularly performed.
The Spoon River Metblog updates this complex narrative while returning to the original serial form of distribution. In this version, the town is a different Spoon River, a microcosm of our shrinking America. Here too, a culture war raged, secrets were kept, people loved and betrayed and murdered. We hear the departed bear witness to the meaning, or lack of meaning, of their lives. Our guide here is not a poet; instead, a writer named George Dillon Davidson records the epitaphs of the dead in a kind of syllabic prose. And in his writings, there may be hidden meaning to discover which reveal even more about the history of Spoon River. The story is told in the form of a Metblog. Metroblogging is a worldwide network of city-specific blogs, where groups of authors write stories about life in their city from a personal, hyper-local perspective. Bode Media, the publishers of Metroblogging, have built a fictional Metblog site for Spoon River, and the epitaphs as relayed by Davidson are published as individual blog posts. Readers are free to comment on the individual epitaphs, and draw connections between the different characters.
I am indebted to several people for helping in the creation of this project: Sean Bonner and Jason DeFillippo at Metroblogging for giving it a home; Mack Reed and the Creative Thinkers for invaluable support and counsel; Andrea Phillips for understanding better than anyone; Shannon Ramsay for her usual graphic design brilliance; John Hallwas and Kathy Nichols from Western Indiana University, and Kenneth Kitchin in St. Louis for crucial research help; the WTF team at Shadow Unit for constant inspiration; the seething mass of awesomeness that makes up the BarCampLA community; and B, for putting up with it all.
The Spoon River Metblog was published in cooperation with the Metroblogging Network and Bode Media.The Spoon River Metblog is a modern adaptation of "Spoon River Anthology," set in the form of a group blog. The full archive can be found at the Spoon River...